"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of……" — Ernst Mach
"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view."
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Ernst Mach
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34 Quotes by Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach has 34 quotes on this site.
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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the…
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Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned…
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It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind…
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I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such…
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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon…
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In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a…
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Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot…
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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and…
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Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
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The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his…
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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things…
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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